WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY

ADA COMPLIANCE

Making your site accessible allows you to better reach the millions of people around the world with disabilities, it also protects you from lawsuits and negative press.

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TESTING STANDARDS

Sites tested by Coughlin undergo the following series of tests. We use as many open source tools as possible to keep the cost of compliance manageable.

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WCAG 2.1 LEVEL AA ANALYSIS USING AXE AND LIGHTHOUSE.

SCREEN READER TESTING USING NVDA AND MICROSOFT NARRATOR.

KEYBOARD NAVIGATION TESTING ON EVERY PAGE.

19.9

MILLION

8.2% of Americans have difficulty lifting or grasping. This could impact mouse or keyboard use.

8.1

MILLION

3.3% of Americans have a vision impairment, making them reliant on a screen magnifier, screen reader, and/or higher contrast content.

7.6

MILLION

3.1% of Americans have a hearing impairment, thus making transcripts and/or captions for audio and video media critical.

SITES THAT GO THROUGH COUGHLIN TESTING AND OPTIMIZATION MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

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A site is verified for a specific date. Additions to the site can make parts of it inaccessible. Each site certification includes the date of certification. Recertification is a much simpler process and should be done on a frequency that corresponds with the addition or modification of content on the site.